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Clay Bennett
Born January 20, 1958
in Clinton, South Carolina. Growing up the son of a career army
officer, he led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools
before graduating in 1976 from S. R. Butler High School in Huntsville,
Alabama.

Served as editorial cartoonist for his college paper and managing
editor of the alternative student newspaper while attending the
University of North Alabama, where he graduated in 1980 with
degrees in Art and History.
After working briefly
as a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and
The Fayetteville (NC) Times, Bennett went on to serve
as the editorial cartoonist for the St. Petersburg Times
(1981-1994) and The Christian Science Monitor (1997-2007).
He now draws five cartoons a week for the Chattanooga Times Free
Press, having
joined its staff in 2008.
Winner of The
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2002, Bennett has earned almost every honor
his profession has to offer. He's received the Sigma Delta Chi
Award (2001), the National Journalism Award (2002), the National
Cartoonist Society's Award for Editorial Cartoons (2002), the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2007), the John Fischetti
Award twice (2001, 2005), the Overseas Press Club Award twice
(2005, 2007), and the National Headliner Award three times(1999,
2000, 2004).
Past President of the Association
of American Editorial Cartoonists, Bennett is the husband of artist Cindy
Procious, and
the father of Matt, Ben and Sarah.
AWARDS:
2008 Ink Bottle Award,
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
2007 Thomas Nast Award,
Overseas Press Club of America
Finalist,
2008 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Citation of Excellence,
2007 United Nations Political Cartoon Award
2007 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
for Cartoons
Honorable Mention,
2007 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition
Citation of Excellence,
2006 United Nations Political Cartoon Award
2005 Thomas Nast Award,
Overseas Press Club of America
2005 Alumnus of the Year,
University of North Alabama
First Place,
2005 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition
Grand Prize,
2004 National Population Cartoon Contest
2004 National Headliner Award
for Editorial Cartoons
Finalist,
2003 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
2002
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
2002 Best Editorial
Cartoons,
National Cartoonists Society
2002 National Journalism Award,
Scripps Howard Foundation
2001 Sigma Delta Chi Award,
Society of Professional Journalists
First Place,
2001 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition
2001 Editorial Cartoonist of the Year,
Editor & Publisher Magazine
Finalist, 2001 National Journalism Award,
Scripps Howard Foundation
Finalist,
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
2000 National Headliner Award
for Editorial Cartoons
Finalist,
2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
1999 National Headliner Award
for Editorial Cartoons
Finalist,
1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Honorable Mention,
1995 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
1994 Green Eyeshade Award, Best Editorial Cartoons,
Society of Professional Journalists
1990 Jane Roe Media Award,
Florida Abortion Rights Action League
Citation for Editorial Cartoons,
1987 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
1986 H. L. Mencken Award, Best Cartoon,
Free Press Association
Honorable Mention,
1986 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
1984 Green Eyeshade Awards, Best Editorial Cartoons,
Society of Professional Journalists
Citation for Excellence,
1982 Overseas Press Club Award
First Place, Editorial Cartoons,
1979 Society for Collegiate Journalists Awards
Runner-up, Comic Strips,
1979 National Council of College Publications
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